'This election is probably the most important election that we've ever had,' one Wisconsinite told Newsweek. 'We're going to go one way or the other. We're not going to stay in the middle anymore.'
The shift in polls might be connected to a recent series of crime-focused attack ads launched by the GOP against Barnes, which accuse the Democratic nominee and state's lieutenant governor of being a candidate who will reduce the number of police officers in Wisconsin in the face of rising violent crime in the state and who refused to pay property and income taxes
Barnes has denied the accusations made in Johnson's ads, saying the Republican candidate had been"caught lying," and hit back with his own ad focusing on abortion rights. In an ad released on October 3, Barnes reminds Wisconsin voters of Johnson's previous support for legislation banning abortion with no exceptions for victims of rape or incest."He co-sponsored a bill that makes no exception for rape, incest, or the life of a woman. And Johnson said if women don't like it, they can move," he said, accurately.
As far as poll results are concerned, Johnson's attack strategy has proven more consequential. But despite the Republican incumbent's resurgence in the polls, the outcome of the November midterms still hangs in the balance. "It is still possible for Barnes to unseat Johnson, but only if the campaign focus changes soon," Professor Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told
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